Sarah E. Needleman

Like if you're in the medical device area where safety is paramount, having more layers and checks and balances is just probably always going to be the case.

It's just the nature of that industry.

When you're in more creative fields and interactive entertainment, for example, or social media or whatever, then you might have a little bit more leeway.

And so we'll see what the future holds.

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It could be a little bit of both.

Basically, companies have been trimming their middle manager ranks for years.

past several years in the name of efficiency and speed.

They say it helps with driving innovation.

So they're really reducing layers to remove bureaucracy and get things done.

Lately, Met and Block have gone down this path, but they are approaching it with different job titles.

They said they're offloading some of the traditional work that a dedicated middle manager would do to AI.

And so the people who are still doing, in some cases, still overseeing other workers or providing guidance, but they're also doing some of the hands-on work.

And there's really just a removal of the dedicated middle manager where that's like the only thing you do is manage other people.

That really seems to be fading out.